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In my 14 to 15 year old life in the late 50s I worked as a clean-up boy in the neighborhood butcher shop up on 5th. Ave.,
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It was the dead of winter. I took my father's shotgun from his closet. He kept it wrapped up in one of those khaki-colored gun tote bags that had a zipper running the whole length of the gun. It was a 16-gauge, single action shotgun. Anyone could tell wha
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Jane knew what to do
when she heard murmurs in the ceiling,
knew what to do when she struck out on the moor.
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His eyes are closed yet restless, as if too many thoughts loop beneath the lids.
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Hits start, enters numbers, runs the program / Does this again one hundred times / Then takes a break
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I can’t deny you’re beautiful, though it’s unsure how many of your defects are fudged by my myopia.
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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.
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148851
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A dead deer on the side of the road and the older boys not listening to her as they stab its eye with a stick.
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1488105
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I like it best when I wake up
And the wild rain of dreaming ends.
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I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…
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There is a roofer straddling part of our house, pushing shingles off of our roof with the edge of a shovel. …. I've thought seriously, at times, about becoming a nurse. Seeing your mother in a hospital bed, hooked up to a tube, more than one, too…
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Kerryn saved us from ourselves really. Would you be reading this had she eaten it?
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Above our bellies we are beautiful women with luscious breasts. Where there is skin, believe me, it is flawless, irresistible. Most of us have long hair, but there are some among us who keep their heads close cropped for aerodynamic…
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They make you work
For your pizza in Italy
You have to slice it yourself
While wearing a gas mask
To ward off the cigarette smoke
From every neighboring table
While chasing away the
Mosquitos and the pigeons
The flies and the gypsy r
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Ben was not a happy musician.
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1487107
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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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148732
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...he was suddenly and hazily relieved that he had something in Persepolis and blue agave plants to talk to her about.
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Ey’, it’s where I followed him down
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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In that time when the trunk was getting cleared out and when it became only the empty shell of what had once been so important, many things hit the match. She burned an old black negligee, a picture competing with the likes of a Vargas girl and other thin
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148732
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A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
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I'll still want the blinds open
and the lights on,
to see the papier-mache of our flesh
fighting death away to the century mark,
even if you only want to live until
a ripe eighty-two.
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148762
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The laptop has ruined the sanctity of the library. And so I get up and go see Queen Jane.
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148752
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The manicured lawn rolls down either side of the knoll, punctuated with flat granite plaques, the occasional bouquet of cut flowers, a smattering of faded eight-inch American flags.
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148732
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"I'm just going to
take a power nap!"
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The Italian was late. She was supposed to come into the store, meet him in the back, and arrange to take the last of his liquor.
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One could count fifty moons hanging in the sky, in rows and columns of smaller skies.
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His eyes are wide then narrow and brown. Hers are gray then they look away, toward the back door where a delivery driver has walked in, carrying a tray. Nothing is going to happen today.
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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